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2011-05-04 12:10:51     Adrian Short » Blog Archive » Boris says bye-bye to indie Boris Bikes developers

http://adrianshort.co.uk/...to-indie-boris-bikes-developers/

Courted, used and discarded in less than a year. That’... Transport for London’s attitude towards independent ap... the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.

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2013-12-18 10:56:11     An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...e-of-the-state-of-tech/?...

Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on hi... twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by k... outside the file, as he did.

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2010-09-17 14:48:30     P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The insuffiency of the open data approach

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-insuffiency-of-the.../1412

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

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2011-06-18 14:32:03     The traveler's vade mecum: or ... - Google Books

http://books.google.com/books?...#v=onepage&

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2010-12-11 00:35:24     As Textbooks Go Digital, Campus Bookstores May Go Bookless - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/article/College-20-As-Textbo.../125363/

As students cut costs by buying books from cheaper onlin... downloading e-textbooks, campus bookstores sell fewer an... That's triggering an identity crisis for one of the olde... campus and leading some college officials to ask: If tex... does the ca

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2009-11-22 10:53:32     COI - Structuring information on the Web for re-usability

http://coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=312

Government is committed to making its public information... available as possible. The best way to make structured i... available online is to publish it as Linked Data. Linked... information easier to cut and combine in ways that are r... citizens. T

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2013-02-09 09:27:30     About | Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

http://darkpatterns.org/vision/

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

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2010-10-14 12:31:03     Local Public Data Panel response to Health White Paper | data.gov.uk

http://data.gov.uk/...a-panel-response-to-health-white-paper

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

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2010-06-28 18:45:49     New Public Sector Transparency Board and Public Data Transparency Principles | data.gov.uk

http://data.gov.uk/...nd-public-data-transparency-principles

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

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2011-10-31 14:05:33     Digital Death Day

http://digitaldeathday.com/

DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...

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2011-05-25 17:56:34     Full text of Obama's speech to UK parliament - CNN.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLI.../obama.europe.speech/?...

In other words, we live in a global economy that is larg... making. And today, the competition for the best jobs and... countries that are free-thinking and forward-looking; co... most creative, innovative, entrepreneurial citizens.
That gives nations

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2011-07-12 11:21:44     Microchip implant (human) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)

The hand of microchip implant hobbyist Amal Graafstra, j... operation to insert an RFID tag. The yellow coloration c... used to disinfect the hand for surgery.

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2011-07-08 10:01:51     Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification

Some business establishments give customers the option o... RFID-based tab to pay for service, such as the Baja Beac... Barcelona.[114] This has provoked concerns into privacy ... they can potentially be tracked wherever they go by an i... to them.

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2011-05-05 15:24:32     Flattr - Social micropayments

http://flattr.com/about

Flattr was founded to help people share money, not just ... Flattr, the only reasonable way to donate has been to us...
The team that makes it happen »
donations if it wasn't for a really important cause. Sen ...
Flattr solves this issue. When you're r

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2011-09-12 12:34:54     About Full Fact | Full Fact

http://fullfact.org/about

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

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2011-05-30 15:48:38     Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks, brews beer, is time machine - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/...-networks-brews-beer-is-time-machine/

We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that inj... stories over public WiFi connections last February, but ... great walk through and it seems our doubts about this pr...
The Newstweek uses ARP spoofing to change the text displ ...
Aside from

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2010-10-31 09:43:01     Facebook buys drop.io file sharing service, shuts it down - Download Squad

http://i.downloadsquad.com/...sharing-service-shuts-it-down/

Facebook's latest acquisition is the cloud-based media s... drop.io, which offered a quick and versatile way to uplo... kinds of files, from pictures to videos to documents. Ac... post from drop.io, the service will be shutting down Dec...
According t

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2013-03-03 08:58:46     Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer + lucrative meme = rape t-shirts on Amazon | I Am Pete Ashton

http://iam.peteashton.com/keep-calm-rape-tshirt-amazon/

The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri...
Douglass Ru

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2011-11-02 11:54:29     Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists | TPM Idea Lab

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/...operation-cartel.php

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Ha...
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Carl Franzen November 1, 2011, 6:00 PM 24755 95
Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threa ...
... ves would almost certainly be targeted by rival cartels.

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2010-11-21 20:24:45     Internet Eyes, CCTV Monitoring

http://interneteyes.co.uk/

Shoplifting is at its highest recorded levels, £4.88 bi... according to the Centre for Retail Research. Internet Ey... designed to combat this rise by detecting these crimes a...
Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification sy ...

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2012-09-21 08:04:52     Facebook Is Badware (and Why Google Should Warn Its Users)

http://lifehacker.com/...nd-why-google-should-warn-its-users

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that... gaslighting

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2011-05-11 13:04:28     In a World Without Tracking & Cookies, Can Online Commerce Succeed?

http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/buyosphere/

A core tenet of Buyosphere is a C2B (that’s consumer-t... communication flow. In other words, rather than business... gathering data on your behavior and pushing advertising ...
“At Buyosphere, you gather what you buy and own, a ...
As the Do N

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2012-05-03 16:38:04     Is Too Much Tech Bad for the Modern Teenager? [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/teenager-infographi/?...

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

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2011-03-17 06:13:46     BBC News - Can libraries survive in a digital world?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_o.../9421996.stm

"Communities need libraries more than they ever have don... are in a superb position to help [during difficult econo...
"People who say 'we don't need libraries because it's al ...

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2010-05-14 11:38:50     BBC News - Internet approaches addressing limit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10105978.stm

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks ... give out, estimates suggest.
Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which t ...

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2009-04-15 12:58:25     BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Egyptian town's 'zero unemployment'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7952795.stm

Egyptian town's 'zero unemployment'
Despite the ongoing global economic turmoil, one Egyptia ...
The people of Damietta attribute this to the quality of ...
Christian Fraser visited one of Damietta's many workshop ...

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2013-12-03 08:12:13     End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics | Business Tech - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/...ores-law-its-not-just-about-physics/

A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges.

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2015-08-11 10:55:25     Stop calling it the “Sharing Economy.” That isn’t what it is. | Olivier Blanchard

http://olivierblanchard.net/...economy-that-isnt-what-it-is/

“I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s...
Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ...
Context mat

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2010-06-29 18:34:20     API Bundles | Open API Service

http://openapiservice.com/content/api-bundles

Alcatel-Lucent has flipped the traditional API revenue m...
By creating a commercially packaged bundle of APIs, deve ...
Don't max out your credit cards with API calls. Instead, ...

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2010-11-04 09:16:47     Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie

http://ozzie.net/docs/dawn-of-a-new-day/

Imagining A “Post-PC” World

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